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Bands with GREAT backing vocals

#61
hawkan2580 said:
I happen to have a 24 track dump of Bohemian Rhapsody (dumped directly from the original 24 track tejp, track for track to wave) pre mix and pre-eq/comp.. [snip]...I will however not share the whole track as there would be black cars with an armada of Queens lawers arriving :eek: The dump is in high res and could be "misused" if it got out..
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Um... apparently it's already gotten out. I know at least a half dozen recording engineers who have those same tracks.
 
#64
I'm really into backing vocals. A lovely harmony always works for me.

As loads of people said and I agree- The Beatles.
The live James Taylor album has some brilliant stuff on it.
The Kinks
Toto
Fleet Foxes- Brilliant harmonies. 3 and 4 parters too.
 
#67
Hoover said:
Um... apparently it's already gotten out. I know at least a half dozen recording engineers who have those same tracks.
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Yep, how do you think I got it?;) But there's a difference of it being shared amongst people who are in the business, 1 person to the next who are wise enough to not misuse the material (and who knows and understand the ramifications if they do) compared to being torrented or up for download and freely being shared with anyone and everyone ..
 
#68
Thanks for the queen info, I remember hearing a few years ago about how the harmony "sound" was created by the guys all singing the separate harmony lines in unison..good to hear it confirmed.
I actually prefer the very early queen live recordings (check out queen at the rainbow..there are a few clips on YouTube) where they had really worked out the "live" harmonies, from the 80's on they seemed to drop a lot of the harmonies from the live gigs
 
#72
I'll echo some of the previous mentions:

The Beatles
Beach Boys
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Pink Floyd (David Gilmour, Roger Waters & Richard Wright sounded amazing together)
Queen
E.L.O. (Jeff Lynne developed a very specific style for producing & arranging backing vocals. You can hear that on his work with George Harrison & Tom Petty)

With some more current acts?
Travelling Wilbury's (both records have amazing backing vocal arrangements)
The Black Crowes
The Thorns (this one of record was a one-off collaboration between Matthew Sweet, Shawn Mullins and Pete Droge, and it was likened to a modern day CSN record)
The Decembrists
 
#73
UTOPIA '76-'86 not a bad little quartet. Lets throw QUEEN in there too while were talking quartets.

Like Steve C. says " everyone played,everyone sang, the good old days.

Hows about that quartet at this years super bowl, Hmmmm!:rollno:
 
#74
Lots of great responses on this!

Porcupine Tree
The John Mayer Trio
Lisa Hannigan (w/ Damien Rice)

Some might not agree with me on this, as they're considered to be one those 'Emo/Pop Punk" bands.. But Jesse Lacey, and band from Brand New on their album "The Devil, And God Are Raging Inside Me" has some great tracks, and incredible lyrics in it.

The E Street Band
(most notably on live versions of "Should I Fall Behind"

Ray Charles (The Cookies, The Raelettes)
 
#76
I will be banned from this forum for my list ... but here goes ...

Steely Dan
The Carpenters
Basia (does harmonizing with yourself count?)
Little River Band
CSN
Manhattan Transfer
Beatles
Anything with Michael McDonald singing backup
Anything with AutoTune is excluded
 

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